For the record

"Pickles's dilemma: clean streets or angry voters" (Seven Days) described communities secretary Eric Pickles as chairman of the Conservative party. He held this role when in opposition but stepped down at the general election. Baroness Warsi and Baron Feldman now co-chair the party.

Our report on Swansea City v Leyton Orient ("Tate slip lets Orient through", Sport, ) said Swansea had not gone past the fifth round of the FA Cup since before the Second World War. In fact, the Swans played in a semi-final at Villa Park in 1964, having en route beaten three teams from the then First Division, including Liverpool at Anfield in the sixth round.

We repeated a caption supplied to us by a picture agency on a photograph of a whale which said the creature was "off the coast of Illinois" ("The cultural life of the sperm whale" Discovery, New Review). Some whale: Illinois has no sea shore.